Hi David, The usage of "acrostic" in this case is indeed semantically incorrect.
According to the OSIS specification, the correct markup for a psalm canonical title is <title type="psalm" canonical="true"> and it is perfectly allowed to occur before the first verse. The crosswire wiki mentions that, in this case, sword requires an additional attribute subType="x-preverse" on the title tag, though I'm not sure what the purpose of this tag is and if it affects your issue with searching. As a side note, in many bibles, as you say, some psalm titles span several verses, and therefore the OSIS spec allows <verse/> tags in the middle of a psalm title - though currently sword does not support it because osis2mod does not transform the <title> tag to milestoned form. Regards, Arnaud Le mar. 28 janv. 2025, 13:12, David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com> a écrit : > Thanks John, > > *Aside*: I'm puzzled by the use of *type="acrostic"* when the 125 Psalms > with canonical titles are nothing to do with acrostics, *per se*. Surely, > that attribute should be reserved for the 22 stanza headings in Psalm 119 ? > > There are Alternative Versifications in which the canonical Psalm titles > are assigned to verse 1 (or in a few cases to verses 1 & 2) with subsequent > verse numbers being offset by +1 (or +2). > I was not enquiring about modules that are for Bible versions like that. > > In the KJV and many other modules, the Psalm titles proper are *before* > the start of verse 1. > > Best regards, > > David > > Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> secure email. > > On Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 at 11:17 AM, Johan Marais < > johan.mar...@messianic.co.za> wrote: > > David. > > In our translation I set Ps 6:1 as: > > And a ‘normal’ search in Xiphos 4.2.1 returns 7 results: > > Regards, > > Johan Marais > > > ------------------------------ > > -----Original Message----- > From: sword-devel <sword-devel-boun...@crosswire.org> On Behalf Of David > Haslam > Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2025 10:45 > To: sword-devel mailing list <sword-devel@crosswire.org> > Subject: [sword-devel] Canonical Psalm titles and SWORD search? > > > > I just tried to search for the word 'Neginoth' using Xiphos. > > > > There were no results found! > > > > This word occurs in the canonical Psalm title for Ps.6 and five other > Psalms. > > > > "To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David." > > > > In view of the fact that canonical Psalm titles are translated from the > original Hebrew, ought it not to be within the scope of SWORD search? > > > > Or is this merely a shortcoming of Xiphos? > > > > cf. Xiphos Advanced Search dialog allows search scope to look in > footnotes, but there's no such option for titles. > > > > Of course, many Bible versions have non-canonical headings throughout the > module, yet I'm not concerned with such in asking this question here. > > > > Best regards, > > > > David > > > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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